Reflections on Identity

Thoughts on Sending My Second Child Off to College

On how whittling my household from five to four to three to two really feels

Laura Friedman Williams
9 min readAug 25, 2021

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Sunset over the Catskill Mountains, taken from my living room

This morning, I awaken to find every light in the house on at full blast: first the hallway, then the hall bathroom, the kitchen, the living room, the staircase to the kids bedrooms. It…

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Laura Friedman Williams

Author of AVAILABLE: A Very Honest Account of Life After Divorce (Boro/HarperUK June ‘21; Harper360 May ‘21). Mom of three, diehard New Yorker.